Non-staple food is the classification of food in China's planned economy era. There are staple food and non-staple food.

1. staple food: refers to cereal food, including rice, steamed bread, pies, noodles or other cereal and potato products.

2. Non-staple food: refers to refined food, including sugar, candy, canned food, tea, condiments, dairy products, honey products, bean products, beverages, biscuits, cakes, snacks, cigarettes, wine, fruits, etc.

3. Grain and oil: refers to the general name of grain, oilseeds and their processed and semi-finished products, and is the general name of staple food.

Grain and oil include staple food, excluding non-staple food. So grain and oil are grain and oil, and non-staple food is non-staple food. Therefore, grain, oil and non-staple food is a necessity for our human survival and a special commodity related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

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Main and non-staple food collocation

A balanced diet requires not only a balanced mix of non-staple foods, but also a reasonable mix of main and non-staple foods. If the main and non-staple foods don't match,

Appropriate, it will also affect the absorption of nutrients. ?

The reasonable collocation of main and non-staple foods is to arrange non-staple foods according to the situation of staple foods. For example, the staple food based on coarse grains should be accompanied by more non-staple foods such as meat, eggs and tofu, and the staple food based on flour and rice should be arranged with more non-staple foods such as vegetables. The combination of staple food and non-staple food not only improves the taste, but also contributes to the balance of nutrients.

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